“We can either live in a paranoid politically correct world frantically trying not to offend the Hitlers and Mohammeds, and blaming their victims when they kill, or we can be free men and women who have chosen to take the power to defend our rights into our own hands.

While a thousand organizations use the Holocaust as a platform for speeches about tolerance, Children Of Jewish Holocaust Survivors [Jews Can Shoot] is conducting firearms training… Freedom is not defended with empty idealism easily perverted into appeasement of evil, but with the force of arms.”

Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish blog

All too many of the other great tragedies of history - Stalin's atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few - were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece... If a few hundred Jewish fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.

Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Silveira v. Lockyer, 2003

Habah l'hargecha hashkem l'hargo -- "If someone is coming to kill you, rise against him and kill him first."

Month: August 2016

Commentary

Guns, Camera, Action! How Hollywood gets their guns

by Jews Can Shoot on August 2, 2016

Guns have been a staple of Hollywood films since the silent era, and many movies feature firearms as key components of their story. But, where do studios get the guns? Karl Weschta, general manager of Independent Studio Services’ (ISS) armory, explained, “Production companies usually hire a prop master. The prop master is responsible for all the props,

Commentary

Is SCOTUS a Good Reason to Support Trump? Libertarian and Conservative Legal Experts Weigh In

by Jews Can Shoot on August 2, 2016

Donald Trump is hoping to pitch himself as the conservative legal movement’s last best hope for securing the future of the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump says that if he’s elected president he will name committed constitutionalists to the bench and will replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia with “a person of similar views and principles.”

Commentary

Transporting A Firearm With A Loaded Magazine While In California

by Jews Can Shoot on August 1, 2016

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** STATEMENT FROM SUPERTOOL’S FOUNDER REGARDING THE TRANSPORTATION OF A LOADED MAGAZINE WHILE IN CALIFORNIA As a US Marine Corps veteran, I understand the importance of not only self-defense but also eliminating any tactical limitations in an ever changing environment. I’m sure most of you have heard the motto of the Marines Corps

Commentary

Obama regime targets gunsmiths with new executive order

by Jews Can Shoot on August 1, 2016

President Barack Obama just quietly released a new executive order that could subject casual gunsmiths to thousands of dollars in fees and other regulatory burdens if they so much as thread a barrel on a firearm. The executive order gives new authority to the State Department’s Directorate of Defense trade Controls, which oversees International Traffic

Commentary

Ultimate Gun Control Facts – “I Carry A Gun”

by Jews Can Shoot on August 1, 2016

Commentary

Revisiting the 21-Foot Rule

by Jews Can Shoot on August 1, 2016

For decades now many American officers have heard use-of-force instructors discuss the “21-Foot Rule” during officer safety, firearms, and deadly force training. As a use-of-force instructor and a practicing forensic police practices expert, I have also trained and testified to this concept myself. The 21-foot rule was developed by Lt. John Tueller, a firearms instructor

Commentary

In Case You Missed It: More Gun Control Laws Will Not Reduce Crime

by Jews Can Shoot on August 1, 2016

A new study released by the University of Pittsburg finds that nearly 8 in 10 gun crimes are committed with illegally-possessed guns. The findings are summarized in this Washington Post headline: “New Evidence Confirms what Gun Rights Advocates Have Said for a Long Time about Crime.” What the NRA has been saying all along is that criminals, by definition,

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Huck and Mitzi model JCS Wear

by Jews Can Shoot on August 1, 2016

"All too many of the other great tragedies of history—Stalin’s atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few—were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. ... If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars." — Silveira v Lockyer, (9th Cir. 2003) (Kozinski, J. dissenting.)